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Former City Press Editor Mathata Tsedu’s son is found burnt beyond recognition in the boot of his car

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Former City Press Editor Mathata Tsedu’s son is found burnt beyond recognition in the boot of his car

Bophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government

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Bophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government

Thomas Pringle, journalist and editor of Cape newspaper Commercial Advertiser, dies in London

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Thomas Pringle, journalist and editor of Cape newspaper Commercial Advertiser, dies in London

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At least three high school students have been shot dead by police in Guinea during a protest against a lack of teachers at thei

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What Eskom calls a &quot;rolling blackout&quot; continues in the Western and parts of the Eastern Cape today after the shutdown

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International Day of Violence Against Women. Start of 16 Days of Activism on no Violence on Women.

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Superintendent Andre Neethling announces a child prostitution and trafficking task team has rescued another fourteen underage p

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The Unicity Commission is established by the Provincial Minister of Local Government in the Western Cape, Minister Pierre Uys.&

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Jake Tuli (69), first Black SA boxer to win a Commonwealth title, dies in Johannesburg.

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A former member of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s entourage testifies before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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President Félix Houphouet-Boigny retains power when he wins the first multi-party election in the Ivory Coast.

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Minister of Law and Order, Louis le Grange, announces a new series of directives for the protection of detainees.

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The government concedes another legal defeat in its attempts to transfer the KaNgwane ‘homeland’ to Swaziland. Dr. Piet Koornho

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak frees thirty-one journalists and political figures, including five former Cabinet officials, w

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Forty-five mercenaries from South Africa under Colonel Mike Hoare land in Seychelles, attack the airport and cause heavy damage

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Dr Cornelius Gerhardus Stephanus (Con) de Villiers (83), author and authority on zoology and church music, dies in Ceres, CP.

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The new British Ambassador to South Africa, Sir John Nicholls, presents his credentials to the State President.

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General Joseph Mobutu, later known as Mobutu Sese Seko, deposes President Joseph Kasavubu in the Congo.

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Geoffrey Hlabangane, chief executive officer and director of New Seasons Resources, Johannesburg, since 1999, is born in Middel

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Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (77), financier, mining and industrial magnate who founded the Anglo American Corporation and politician

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British, French and Zionist residents are ordered out of Egypt.

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Stanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist who built an art gallery in Katlehong in 1982, is born in Newcastle, Natal. (Johannesburg Art

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General Jan Smuts, SA premier, makes a notable speech to members of the British parliament, suggesting that the responsibility

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Pieter John Philander, SA poet, is born in Caledon, CP.

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Police in Natal open fire on people demonstrating against the imprisonment of Mohandas Gandhi, killing two and wounding twenty-

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Three Kgatla-Tswana regiments, armed by the British, attack a burgher laager at Derdepoort, east of Gaberones

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Enslin or Graspan takes place, with the burghers under General De la Rey and Commandant Lubbe

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Johannes Friedrich Wilhelm Grosskopf, author, newspaper editor and professor at the University of Stellenbosch, is born in Bloe

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More than 470 people drown when a ferry carrying mainly Egyptian pilgrims sinks in the Red Sea.

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It is revealed that the government of President de Klerk donated money to the Inkatha Freedom Party.